anxious - Story 7317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The soft glow of the living room lamp cast long shadows across the room as John entered the apartment. He'd expected to find Emily, his partner of five years, reading, as she often did. Instead, he found her engrossed in something on her laptop, headphones on. The sound of rapid speech filtered through the air, unfamiliar at first, then familiar, Italian.

His footsteps faltered. He didn’t dare speak, but stayed rooted, listening. His chest tightened. He wanted to flee.

The laptop screen reflected in her eyes. She hadn't noticed him.

Emotion: anxious

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -1.99 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.24

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion anxious. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 anxious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the anxious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the anxious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😣`	0.315
`😖`	0.302
`worse`	0.297
`😰`	0.285
`own`	0.267

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.441
`a`	-0.382
`de`	-0.365
`"`	-0.256
`happy`	-0.256